Marbles??

[Goes4ever]

I can't understand why I see so many marbles posted in peoples finds with a metal detector?? are they in the same hole as other finds or what? Someone help me figure this out....lol

 

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[TooManyHobbies]

Being new, I asked the same question a few weeks ago. The answer was, they are found in the holes with the coins, etc. I guess kids would drop them at the same time the coins were dropped. i.e. a pocket spill. Some are found on top of ground, like at a tot lot.

 

[Ant]

We find most of the marbles at demolition sites after being plowed or pushed up by construction equipment, we dig them too, but most of them are eyeball on the ground at sites like I mentioned.

A little more information:
The best place to set up a marble game is on a dirt surface, clay is the best. A boy would have both front pockets filled to the brim with marbles, at least 50 or 60 of them. That’s how many marbles we carried, and some had shoeboxes full of them. Playing marbles became a bad thing to do because parents started to relate playing marbles to gambling.

Back then if you were a marble player you knew who the other kids were who played marbles because their front pockets bulged out due to being filled with marbles. So you can find millions of marbles out there.

 

[Goes4ever]

are any valuable?

 

[Ant]

are any valuable?

Yeap some go for 100's of dollars, jsut like coins, but unlike coins most are worthless, at least coins hold thier face value. But I like collecting marbles anyway.

 

[Mirage]

Some sites are better at producing marbles. Yes, I have found plenty by eyeballing them on the top of the ground. But most are found when digging a generous "plug". If you are digging shallow, narrow plugs you probably will not find that many.

 

[Ant]

Some sites are better at producing marbles. Yes, I have found plenty by eyeballing them on the top of the ground. But most are found when digging a generous "plug". If you are digging shallow, narrow plugs you probably will not find that many.

My holes aren’t that deep, unless I detect a deep target. I see lots of ML guys digging deep holes and they find lots of marbles that way. I’ve been MD'ing about 4 years and I have 133 marbles, 95 present of them have been eyeballed.

At this one particular site that I hunt I noticed that lots of the ML users dig gapping holes. But the majority of the targets are shallow because the place has been scraped. So I’m digging targets on average 1” to 4” and I see the ML guys digging 7“-12” holes.

I figured this was because from what I have heard the EX2 and SE’s take extra time to pin point a target. And it’s faster to retrieve a target by digging a bigger hole than to waste time using a pin pointer. Using the GB-2 I don’t need a pin pointer and I dig hole at this site at the depths I’ve mentioned. Nothing is wrong with that, but I did notice that.

 

[SwampHunter]

I find quite a few of them laying right on top of the ground while I am out detecting. Never have found one in a hole while digging.

 

[konnon6]

yep! a burban blue cat eye is worth 700.00 dollars on eBay!

 

[johnnycat]

Marbles mostly on the surface. Also, I keep an eye out for old buttons.